Okropir ( ka, ოქროპირი) known in

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Okropir Georgievich Gruzinsky (russian: Окропир Георгиевич Грузинский), (June 24, 1795 – October 30, 1857) was a

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prince royal (

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) of the

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.''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' Band III. "Bagration-Muchransky". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1955, pp. 247, 249. (German).

Biography

Okropir (''aka'' "Chrysosthomus") was born in

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to Crown Prince George (the future king

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, reigned 1798–1800) and his second wife, Mariam. After his father's death and Russian annexation of Georgia (1800), the royal family was forcibly removed from Georgia. In 1803, Queen Mariam was sent into confinement in Belogorod Monastery at

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for having murdered the Russian general Lazarev who was commanded to convoy the king's family to Russia. Okropir was carried away to

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where he was enlisted into the

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and commissioned, in 1812, as a lieutenant of the

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. He retired in 1816 and lived thereafter in St. Petersburg, being prohibited by the authorities from permanently settling in Georgia. Within Russia, Okropir and his cousin Prince Dimitri, son of

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, were principal leaders of Georgian royalists; they held gatherings of Georgian students at

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and St. Petersburg, and tried to convince them that Georgia should be independent. Okropir clandestinely visited

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in 1830, and helped to found a secret society with the aim of restoring an independent kingdom under the Bagrationi dynasty. The society included many leading Georgian nobles and intellectuals, among them Elizbar Eristavi, Philadelphos Kiknadze,

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, and Iase Palavandishvili who subsequently betrayed his numbers. On December 10, 1832, a few days before the planned coup, the conspirators were arrested. Okropir was exiled to

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in 1833, but was soon pardoned and allowed to return to Moscow where he died in 1857.

Family

Prince Okropir was married to Countess Anna Pavlovna Kutaisova (1800-1868). Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil 3,1,: Kurland, Bd.:1, Görlitz, 1939
p.350
/ref> Okropir fathered three sons and two daughters—Princes and Princesses

Gruzinsky Gruzinsky (russian: Грузинский; ka, გრუზინსკი) was a title and later the surname of two different princely lines of the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia, both of which received it as subjects of the Russian Empire. The n ...

(i.e., "of Georgia") — who were granted by the Russian emperor the style of His/Her Serene Highness. # Prince Giorgi (Georgy Okropirovich Gruzinsky; c. 1834 – 28 February 1886), who died unmarried. # Princess Ana (Anna Okropirovna Gruzinskaya; c. 1834 – 18 June 1898), who was married firstly to Prince Alexander Bagration-Mukhransky (1823–1853), of the

House of Mukhrani The House of Mukhrani is a Georgian princely family that is a branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi, from which it sprang early in the 16th century, receiving in appanage the domain of Mukhrani, in the Kingdom of Kartli. The family — ...

, and secondly to Alexander Albizzi. # Prince Pavle (Pavel Okropirovich Gruzinsky; 26 April 1835 – 12 February 1875), whose petition resulted in the imperial confirmation of the Gruzinsky coat of arms in 1886. He married in 1861 Princess Anastasia Nikolayevna Dolgorukova (1842–1881), by whom he had four sons and one daughter: ## Prince Giorgi (Georgy Pavlovich Gruzinsky; 16 May 1862 – 3 November 1916), ## Prince Konstantine (Konstantin Pavlovich Gruzinsky; 1871–1916), ## Prince Pavle (Pavel Pavlovich Gruzinsky; 1871–1884), ## Prince Dimitri (Dmitry Pavlovich Gruzinsky; c. 1873 – died in infancy), ## Princess Nino (Nina Pavlovna Gruzinskaya; born 1867). # Prince Irakli (Irakly Okropirovich Gruzinsky) # Princess Praskovia (Praskovia Okropirovna Gruzinskaya), possibly an extramarital child.

Ancestry

Notes

References

* Lang, David Marshall (1962), ''A Modern History of Georgia''.

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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. *

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(1994), ''The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition'',

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